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Nassim Taleb on explanation-seeking humans
"...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, not even a spectrum of possible explanations. But silent evidence masks this fact.....we are too brainwashed by notions of causality and we think that it is smarter to say because than to accept randomness." -Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan
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James Altucher Interviews Nassim Taleb
Link to: Ep. 45 Nassim Taleb: Why You Should Embrace Uncertainty This week, Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about technology and how different systems handle disorder. Just...
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Nassim Taleb Quote
“We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We feel responsible for the good stuff, but not for...
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Nassim Taleb On Silent Evidence
"Silent evidence pervades everything connected to the notion of history." -Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan
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Nassim Taleb On Econtalk
Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about antifragility, the concept behind Taleb's next book, a work in progress. Taleb talks about how we can cope with our ignorance and uncertainty...
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Cnbc: Predicting Crisis: Dr. Doom & The Black Swan
Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb on CNBC:-Part 1-Part 2-....................-Related books: -The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Also available in an Audio Book)-Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets...
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